I’ve had no time to post anything this month. So I thought I’d do a roundup of things that happened in the month of April with a look ahead at things coming up in May. I’ve found that it helps keep some perspective on things when I take some time to reminisce at the end of a month.

To start, Joy and I got to take a week-long trip to Seattle. I’ve uploaded some pictures of our adventure to the Pacific Northwest, including a day-trip up to Victoria, British Columbia and the beautiful Butchard Gardens. I was there for a three-day work conference so we decided to make it a whole week and get a couple of days to ourselves. It was great to be there, just the two of us, but we missed the kids tremendously. Josh and Carie, uncle and aunt extraordinaire, were so kind in watching the kido-monkeys while were gone.

Easter has always been my favorite holiday. Even as a kid, for some reason, I was always drawn more to Easter egg hunts that I was to decorating a Christmas tree. Plus, even growing up in Southern California (where there are no seasons), the time of year, spring, just seemed better. In terms of theological significance (for Christians), Christmas is a celebration of the incarnation and Easter is when we look to the atonement and resurrection of Christ. The incarnation is important - don’t read me wrong - but the atonement is what really matters in the whole scheme of redemptive history. Anyways … here are some pictures of the kids all decked out in their Easter Sunday clothes.

Before we left for Seattle, Liam was starting to crawl. Yet, he wasn’t sure of himself and was crashing quite often. By the time we had gotten back, he was an old pro at it. Now’s he’s a speed crawler. I’ll put up some video soon.

The trip to Seattle also marked the release date for the project at work that’s kept me busy for so long. I don’t think I’ll be any less busy in the coming months, but it does feel good to get the thing out of development and in front of customers. If you’d like to know more about it, you can read about Market Manager at the i3 Innovus (my company’s new name) web site. We’ve re-engineered the product using Macromedia (now Adobe) Flex on the front-end and the Microstrategy platform for the data crunching back-end. Its been very cool to see it come together and we’ve got some glowing responses from current customers.

The Month of May is always a sprint for me. It includes mom’s birthday, Joy’s birthday, Mother’s day, our anniversary, and now Liam’s birthday. Not to mention that I’m starting up a new segment of online coursework and working on some certification stuff for work. Wew!

Liam is turning one on May 26th. Joy is sending out invitations to a big pool party on Memorial day weekend to celebrate. Here’s a blurb that Joy thought up for the invitation:

I love the water And I’m turning One, So won’t you join me For some pool party fun?

As I have time, I’m going to be making some incremental changes to this site. I’m getting bored with the picture of my book shelf up above and I’d like to make the site more accessible and extensible. I’d also like to make more frequent updates to the web site but, as I’ve already stated, things are hectic around here. Finally, I’ve wanted this site to contain some writing and work that I’ve done on the web so as to attract clients for some freelance work. I will start to do that and migrate pictures and more “personal” stuff to a sub-site of this one. Stay tuned.